Hey, if you like martinis, the olives are all yours. 
I don't post often here, and my opinions can seem a bit uncompromising, but then, I don't believe in half-measures - I try always to say what I mean and mean what I say, but to do it with tact, which isn't always easy.
Todd, my apologies if I've offended you. I know the crazies are not, by any means, a majority, and I certainly did not mean to imply that you were one. FTR, I'm not opposed to the Second Amendment at all, nor do I have a general hatred/disgust toward Christians (I know plenty who are decent, kindly folks who actually practice something like what Jesus really taught, as opposed to what certain people would like to have us believe). My disgust for the crazies made me appear to generalise, which was never my intention. And I myself was a Christian for a few years in my life - I found that it was not the spiritual path for me and went elsewhere. (Not atheist, however - there are also militant atheists, and I find them distasteful and best kept at arm's length as well. I'm Wiccan, and have been so for the last 22 years...oh, and I'm a moderate there, as well!)
I did make the point that there are plenty of moderates on both sides - on all sides, really - and most are very uncomfortable with extremists and choose not to associate with them. My guess is that you're a moderate as well, in which case I respect you fully. Hope this'll do for an olive branch, as I prefer calm and rational discourse to screaming matches! 
I know a lot of folks (myself included, at times) who think the US would be better off without Texas, given the embarrassments it's produced in the last decade (Dubya and the state's current governor, Rick Perry). I also vividly remember the Branch Davidian standoff and the rather bloody and fiery end it came to on April 19, 1993. That standoff, and other times when the US government has intervened, has been a rallying point for the Tea Party and those whose agendas mesh with theirs, particularly the rabid gun owners who support the NRA blindly and are convinced the "n****r President is coming to take our guns away!" (A very jingoistic part of me often wishes that would happen, just so all these whackjobs who promise "Watch what's gonna happen" can be surprised when the FBI, ATF and other agencies don't back down and chlorinate America's increasingly nasty gene pool - most of the gun nuts aren't people I want living close to me. Sadly, I work side-by-side with at least two of them - the hatred I have to listen to many nights at work makes me ill - but being the lone liberal/progressive in the bunch, I have to keep my head down and my opinions to myself, and it should not surprise anyone reading my comments that I am actively considering other employment.)
The really sad part is how many of these folks claim to be "good Christians" - you can imagine how this phrase acts on me, especially knowing what that entails far too often (e.g. scoundrels, cheats, liars, abusive husbands/fathers [and sometimes wives/mothers], and generally scummy people who think that all they have to do is "pray to Jesus" and everything will go away - they don't believe in karma, but if I could get it through their thick skulls and past their inflated egos, karma believes in them [and will bide its time] is what I would tell them). Many moderate right-wing people are embarrassed by these folks as well, and here in New England where I live, there are lots more moderates in the Republican Party than hard-righties. I don't stand with the extreme leftists, either - given that the NOI has preached hatred, most of the left and most true Muslims don't stand with them - as you get way too many self-righteous bicyclists, vegans and extreme feminists, none of whom bathes with any great frequency! 
Politics make for strange bedfellows, though...
The weird thing is, if Mel Gibson directed it, we probably would see a trilingual version (after all, he did "The Passion of the Christ" in Aramaic - even though the New Testament was originally written in Greek - and "Apocalypto" in Zacatecas, the language of the Aztecs). And the real nitty-gritty violence would be in place, since Mel never flinches from bloody battle scenes. But he and Randall Wallace, William Wallace's descendant, did take a LOT of liberties with history in "Braveheart," so maybe not. It would have to be someone willing make it as authentic as possible and true to history. I don't know of the director or screenplay writer who could make that happen, though.
